I became a surrogate for my brother — but when he saw his newborn daughter, he said, “I can’t take this baby,”

I let that sit in the air between us. I let it be as ugly as it was.

“I built my whole life around holding this family together,” I said finally.

“You used a baby as an exit.”

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“After Mom and Dad. I was going to give you and Melissa a daughter because I couldn’t get them back. And you were going to let me carry your lie into a nursery.”